Hat and garment support for foldable seats



F, W. ZEiDLER AND C. HALPERN.

HM' AND GARMENT SUPPORT FOR FOLDABLE SEATS.

APPLiC/TEON FILED JAN. 10, i920.

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HAT AND GAHMENT SUPPORT FOR FOLUABLE SEATS.

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Patented duly n, iltllth Application filed January l0, 19am Serial No.350,593.

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Be it known that we,` Fnnmnu'eit ith @nur Len, a citizen of the Unitedfinitos, and a resident of flersey City, county of ltludson, and Stateof New Jersey, and 'CARL llanrnnn, a citizen of the United States, and aresident `of Newark, county of Essex, and @tate of New Jersey, haveinvented certain newandfuseful flat andliarment dupports for lToldableSeats, of which the following a specification. i

lvllhile applicable for use wl'ierever foldable seats and economy ofspace `are desid- :ulapted particularly for use in places of amusementand auditoriums generally, and as an auxiliary seat for automobiles andother Vehicles.

'lhe invention consists in the specific cont struction and arrangeinent`of parts des scribed and claimed, thedistinctive features being theskeleton coniiguration of the foldable garment rack having a medial hatloop and side members formed in one piece, and the method of articularlysupporting it on the under side of the seat by means of par-` allelsuspending links positioned at the rear of the seat and raclr,andadjacent to the pivotal support of the seat, so as to affordunobstructed frontal and side spaces between said rack and seat wherebya garment to be shelved may be folded loosely and ali lowed to protrudeon either side of the rack,

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as hereinafter fully set forth.

ln the accompanying drawings,

lliigure l, is a top View of our improved foldable seat, extendedhorizontally and broken away in part;

ltrig. 2, is a perspective View of the same, illustrating by dottedlines the method of supporting a garment thereon Fig. 3, is a View of aportion of the under side of the seat looking in the direction indicatedby the arrow 3, rig. 9i;

` Fig. t, is a side elevation of our improved foldable seat extendedhorizontally;

Fig. 5, is a side elevation of our seat partly raised;

llig. 6, is a side elevation of the seat in its raised or retractedposition;

llig. 7, is a front elevation of a portion of the seat when inhorizontal position.v y

ti, El, represent fined standards on [which the seat fl, is pivotallysupported, although this construction is only shown by way 'etexemplilication, since the seat il, may be piyotally connected with anysuitable or desired means of support VW ith this understanding, the baseframe B, of the seat ft, is shown as pirotally attached at Z), ZJ, 4tobracket arms 8,8, on the inner sides of the standards Ei, fl, as shownmore particularly in liig. l, of the drawings, and the base frame l, isy formed with rear `extensions b, o", which, when the seat alla, ispositioned horizontally, as in lFigs. l, 2 and i, rest against thestandards ti, El, and sustain the seat in that position.

llle are aware that folding and other types of seats have heretoforebeen formed with hat holders or racks rigidly attached to their undersides, and we malte no claim thereto in a broad sense, the novelty ofour new and improved form of folding seat consisting in combining withit an apparel raclr ht, of special skeleton construction, formed withthe medial hat loop r, in one piece with the side members r, r, and inattaching said rack to the seat by means of parallel suspender links Z,Z, positioned at the rear, and adjacent to the pivotal supports b, Z9,of the seat, so as to afford unobstructed frontal and side spacesbetween said skeleton raclr and seat, when the latter is lowered, forthe accommodation of a loosely folded garment which may protrudelaterally as related to the rack and seat, as indicated in dotted linesin Fig. 2, of the drawings.

To this end our skeleton garment raclr lt, consists essentially of theside bars fr, r, and the medial loop r', the latter for theaecommodation of a hat crown, the rim of the hat being supported on theside members of said loop r', in a manner well known in 'the art asrelated to the hat loops heretofore at- 95 tached rigidly to the underside of seats.

The suspender loops Z, Z, are pivotally attached, as at Z', Z, directlyto the rear portions of the side bars r, r, of the rack llt, andindirectly as at Z2, Z2, to the rear portions of the seat base B, bymeans of brach ets Z2, h2, upon the under side of the latter,

,although said brackets Z22, h2, are not an eslilo fore in vogue inconnection with folding seats. Y

The collapsible rack and connections operate automatically when the seatis raised or lowered, the links Z, Z, conforming by gravityto any changein' position of said seat. Hence in order to limit the rear thrust ofthe rack R, stop means are provided for the purpose, as for instance,shoulders i, 1, on the side members 71, a, of the rack arranged tocontact with the suspender links, Z, Z, when the seat is lowered, asin'Figs. Q'and 4.

It is to be understood that by the term wearingapparel as used herein wemean to include head Wear as Well as garments, either or both, beingsupportable on our rack.

Our skeleton rack is simple, unobstructive and inexpensive, and welladapted to the requirements of moving picture and other auditoriumswhere economy of space is essential.

What we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentis:

l. In combination with a folding seat of the character designated, askeleton rack, for the support of wearing apparel, suspended on the rearportion of the seat adjacent to its pivotal support by gravitatingparallel suspender links pivotally connected with both seat and rack,thereby affording unobstructed frontal and side spaces be tween seat andrack for the accommodation of a garment and means limiting the rearthrust of said rack.

2. In combination with a folding seat of the character designated, askeleton rack, for the support of wearing apparel, suspended on the rearportion of the seat adjacent to its pivotal support by parallelsuspender links pivotally connected with both seat and rack, therebyaffording unobstructed frontal and side spaces between seat and rack forthe accommodation of a garment, said skeleton rack being formed with amedial hat loop, for the purpose described.

3. In combination with a folding seat of the character designated, askeleton rack for the support of wearing apparel com )risinr sidemembers and a medial hat loop iormei in one piece, and gravitatingparallel suspender links pivotally connected with both seat and rack andmeans on the side members of the rack engageable with said links, whenthe seat is lowered, to limit the rear thrust of the rack.

FREDERICK lV. ZEDLER. CARL HALPERN. Witnesses:

GEO. XVM. MIATT,

DOROTHY Mm'i'r.

